Holy Scripture

2 Chronicles 30:1

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“As corrector of an inert People That emulator [of David] Hezekiah arose; He restored the Law to a sinful, forgetful people All God's mandates of old, he first Commanded the people to observe, Who ended war by his prayers, Not by steel's point: he, dying, had a grant Of years and times of life made to his tears: Deserv…”
Pseudo-Tertullian — FIVE BOOKS IN REPLY TO MARCION 3.176-183

Source: Septuagint

Original

1And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come into the house of the Lord to Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to the Lord God of Israel.

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— 2 Chronicles 30:1 —

2For the king, and the princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, designed to keep the Passover in the second month.

3For they could not keep it at that time, because a sufficient number of priests had not purified themselves, and the people was not gathered to Jerusalem.

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